Snowboarding became even more popular after it became an Olympic sport in 1998 at the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. In 2010 thousands of people paid to watch the snowboarding at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver Millions of people now enjoy snowboarding. The feeling of riding a snowboard has been described in many different ways. But anyone who has done it understands why so many people, young and old love it. Snowboarding is easy to learn, but the most important thing is that it is so much fun!